A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #186 - Palestinians between Gaza and the West Bank (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

There are no words to describe the ongoing slaughter by the Israeli army 
in the Gaza Strip, whose population is lucky if it "manages" to die from 
a deadly bomb, because everything causes greater suffering, starting 
with the wounds heartbreaking and untreated, from hunger, from 
malnutrition, from the upheavals of the human soul due to the loss of 
loved ones and loved ones. What is happening is of such evident and 
serious horror that it covers up a slower, but constant and systematic 
genocide, which is taking place in parallel in the territories of the 
occupied West Bank.

Lullaby of Rafah

Since the beginning of the military operations, Israel has done 
everything to obscure what happens in the Strip, persecuting and 
expelling the press, or even shooting journalists to dissuade them from 
carrying out their information task. Evidence of this is the death of 
more than 100 of them, accompanied by a ban on broadcasts for Al 
Jazeera, so that all information coming from the Strip is filtered by 
the propaganda office of the Israeli army. Despite this, the news 
filters, the images of immense devastation spread because it is 
practically impossible in a society of entertainment,
of the image, totally suppress the widespread and easy-to-use tools for 
recording and filming events.
Although the experience of Vietnam and the Iraqi war advised the Western 
world to hide the war, what happens is known and cannot help but 
indelibly wound the consciences of the whole world, fueling an 
anti-Zionism which, due to people's ignorance, often becomes turns into 
anti-Semitism, ignoring the fact that if the Jews are Semites, so are 
the Palestinians.
It arouses profound horror and dismay among the righteous of the world 
to note that what the Jewish people suffered from the Nazis and fascists 
and from all those who practiced militant anti-Semitism, implementing 
the pogroms of the Jewish populations, is today being revived by the the 
Israeli army and to the detriment of the Palestinian population.
While the tanks and armored vehicles of the Israeli army plow the land 
of the Gaza Strip, after having destroyed the houses with the motivation 
of wanting to neutralize the network of tunnels built by Hamas, a much 
more important task is to give the Palestinian problem a solution suited 
to the interests of the Jewish State take place in the West Bank.

Apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

In the West Bank beyond the 1967 Green Line there are already more than 
500 thousand large and small settlements created by Israeli settlers 
supported by the government and protected by the army. These are Jewish 
immigrants from the United States but also from Eastern countries who 
settled on Palestinian lands with a military technique of cleansing the 
territory and subsequent occupation. After creating a settlement in the 
form of a camp, they dedicate themselves to cutting down the olive trees 
and fruit trees of the Palestinians to prevent them from cultivating the 
land, silting up the wells and destroying the irrigation pipes, making 
the land uninhabitable, forcing the population to flee due to lack of 
possibilities and terror of sustenance and thanks to the terror of 
suffering violence without any possibility of defense. The assistance 
facilities for the Palestinian population such as healthcare facilities, 
assistance and food aid facilities, and any
infrastructure necessary for life are systematically destroyed while the 
army confiscates land with the motivation of guaranteeing public order 
in the area. With these techniques, the Palestinian population is 
increasingly marginalized in inhabited centers and refugee camps reduced 
to enclaves, surrounded by a hostile Jewish presence that neglected no 
opportunity to practice violence.
In the month of January, 108 attacks were recorded, in the month of 
February 145 and in the month of March 141, more than 250 Palestinians 
from the West Bank lost their lives in April and May. The deaths number 
in the hundreds, but they do not make the news. The "due" share of 
information on the Palestinian crisis is absorbed by Gaza, but in the 
meantime the map of
The West Bank is being completely redesigned at the rate of 
approximately 70-100 hectares of cultivated land and Palestinian 
property "changed hands" or seized by the IDF with the motivation of 
"avoiding friction".
At any moment, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian villagers are 
attacked by Jews in religious dress, armed with rifles or pistols, clubs 
or stones, Molotov cocktails or torches, and equipped with everything 
useful for starting arson. Thousands of olive and almond trees have been 
cut down with electric saws or fields burned with kerosene so the flocks 
of Palestinian shepherds will no longer be able to graze. Water pipes 
are cut to make "the Arabs" thirsty and all this happens with the 
protection of the government and the army, in the indifference of the 
majority of Israelis. Itamar Ben-Gvire Bezaleh Smotrich - government 
ministers - argue that the land belongs to the Jews by divine right.
The settlers armed with M-16s supplied by the IDF, equipped with radios 
to communicate. They impose checkpoints at the exits of Arab villages; 
many roads have been blocked with concrete blocks and for Palestinians a 
small movement becomes problematic, because many roads are closed to 
them. It is no coincidence that South Africans like these techniques
they have known first hand have denounced the Israeli government before 
the International Court of Justice in The Hague for apartheid. They know 
well that in the long run the continuous harassment will produce the 
desired result: either "voluntary emigration" or "punitive" mass expulsion.
Many in Israel view the role of settlers as a mission ordained by God, 
and the Jewish nationalist movement, which has been able to operate with 
impunity for decades, has now grown so strong in the country that it 
represents a force that is central to society.

G.L.

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/06/30/i-palestinesi-tra-gaza-e-cisgiordania/
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